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Durham Herald-Sun

 

New principal named to head Southern High 


April 25, 1998

 

 

Henry J. Pankey, a high school principal from Laurinburg, has been hired to head Southern High School.

Pankey will replace Sandra Niedzialek, who announced last fall she was stepping down at the end of this school year.

Niedzialek didn't elaborate on her plans, but said they would be in the field of education.

Pankey has been principal at Scotland High School since 1996, and is an adjunct professor of speech communications at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, N.Y.

He graduated from the N.C. School of the Performing Arts in Winston-Salem, earned his master's degree in speech and drama from the University of Maryland and earned a graduate diploma of supervision and administration from Brooklyn College.

The Durham Public Schools also has named Carrington Middle School Principal Nancy Hester as executive director of professional growth and development. She has been with the system for 21 years.

Hester graduated from Campbell College and earned her master's degree from N.C. Central University.

She received the system's Wachovia Principal of the Year Award for 1995-96, serves as a consultant for other middle schools in the Triangle and serves on the State Superintendent Advisory Board.

She will start her new job after the school year ends in June.

 

Copyright, 1998, The Durham Herald Company